Re: Did XFCE Environment Die ?

Re: Did XFCE Environment Die ?

There's a couple of indicators for the health and status of XFCE:https://mail.xfce.org/mailman/listinfo/xfce-announce The announce mailing list is for stable and development releases. For example, http://mail.xfce.org/pipermail/xfce-ann … /date.html shows that parole, xfce4-mailwatch-plugin, and xfce4-equake-plugin had releases in October.Next, there's http://git.xfce.org/ which can quickly show you the last time a component had an update somewhere in it's code; be it a push to the master branch for the next release, a maintenance push to one of the stable branches, a push to a feature branch that may be included in the future, or translators improving and updating their stuff.Finally there's https://www.ohloh.net/orgs/xfce which should be a decent dashboard for some of the XFCE components, it doesn't appear to have everything on there, but it does have the main components.

Re: Did XFCE Environment Die ?

@MountainDewManiac, yes default install is broken. I have to do a lot of hacks to make it work properly. XFCE 4.12 is no where to be seen or any hint even on its news and progress. I may have to switch to new GNOME 3.12 (looks very interesting with new features) not to mantion they started switching to wayland which makes it one of the fastest desktop environments. It's said because I really liked XFCE but at this point in time its dead in the watter. Any one knows if XFCE has any plans to support wayland at least ?

Re: Did XFCE Environment Die ?

@vrkalak, I've manually compiled and installed xfce/4.11 packages from source; http://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/ Only to find out that many of the old xfce/4.10 widgets don't work in xfce-panel/4.11 like xfce4-mail-watch-plugin or xfce4-weather-plugin So I had to go back to xfce/4.10 again for now

@ToZ, Well first of all because I use 2 seperate nvidia (video cards) and 3 diferent LCD monitors, simply calling "exec startxfce4" inside ".xinitrc" will not work for me. I have no borders, no desktop (background/icons/right-click-menu) and even panels. As for your second question, I've added this following bash commands to my ".bashrc" to help restart xfdesktop and xfwm4

Now it starts normally, after I also configure my monitors settings using nvidia-settings.

I still have some weird bugs like for example "kernel-dumps" and even "tumbler aka tumblerd" needs to be disabled because I have 100% cpu usage. Then there is some issues with apps some time crash or hang like "firefox" browser. This is just from top of my head :-)

Just to be fair, this is not extremely bad problems at least not for programmer like me. But it is anoying when you do fresh install of Arch/XFCE and have to do this all over again.

Also, away from this subject. I would like to see few improvements to Thuner. Like have seperator option in "Edit" => "Custom Actions" and also ability to have sub-menu instead of it all inside one main menu. This will allow for much better right-click customization inside Thuner.

Re: Did XFCE Environment Die ?

I've manually compiled and installed xfce/4.11 packages from source; http://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/ Only to find out that many of the old xfce/4.10 widgets don't work in xfce-panel/4.11 like xfce4-mail-watch-plugin or xfce4-weather-plugin So I had to go back to xfce/4.10 again for now

I believe you need to re-compile the plugins as well. The Xfce git tree is here with instructions here. However, since you are using Arch, you might save yourself sometime by running the git packages from the AUR (here). I've built successfully from git, but it took a while to figure it out. I've never tried the AUR packages.

Well first of all because I use 2 seperate nvidia (video cards) and 3 diferent LCD monitors.....

Unfortunately I don't have such a set up to be able to assist with or comment about Xfce's stability under such a configuration.

Also, away from this subject. I would like to see few improvements to Thuner. Like have seperator option in "Edit" => "Custom Actions" and also ability to have sub-menu instead of it all inside one main menu. This will allow for much better right-click customization inside Thuner.

Agreed. Perhaps filing an enhancement request would get it moving along (assuming there is sufficient interest).

Re: Did XFCE Environment Die ?

Hi, I've been frequenting the xfce site for over a year now in the hope of some news or update but nothing has happened.I would tend to agree with the OP that xfce appears to be quite dead from the look of it.One specific features I was waiting for is the more extended display manager so that I can avoid giving xrandr commands in the terminal.Not a big issue but an update or some idea of whether something's going to happen would be nice.

From what I can gather from the links posted earlier in this thread (especially the GIT archive) there is still plenty of work being done.However the activity is a bit deceiving since the majority of it seems to be translations, I'm not sure how much work is still being done on the actual source code.